NanoBioPhysics and Medical Physics (Prof. Tilman Schäffer)
Prof. Dr. Tilman E. Schäffer
Professor of Physics and Medical Engineering
| Room: | C9 A34 |
| Phone: | +49-7071-29-76030 |
| Fax: | +49-7071-29-5093 |
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Key activities
| Biological and medical physics |
| NanoBioPhysics and surface physics |
| Scanning probe microscopy |
| Mechanics and dynamics of nanostructures and biosystems |
| Cell mechanics, soft matter, nano- and biomaterials |
Curriculum vitae
| 2023-2024 | Visiting Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA |
| 2018-2019 | Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| since 10/2011 | Professor of Physics and Medical Engineering, University of Tübingen |
| 2007-2011 | Professor of Applied Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 2007 | Visiting Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK |
| 2005 | Habilitation in Physics at the University of Münster, Germany |
| 2002-2007 | Hochschuldozent at the Institute of Physics and Center for Nanotechnology, University of Münster, Germany |
| 1999-2002 | Group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, Göttingen, Germany |
| 1998-1999 | Postdoctoral studies with Profs. Paul Hansma, Galen Stucky, and Daniel Morse in the Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Marine Biotechnology, UCSB, USA |
| 1996-1998 | Ph.D. with Prof. Paul Hansma at UCSB, USA |
| 1994-1996 | M.A. with Prof. Paul Hansma at UCSB, USA |
| 1993-1994 | Study of Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA |
| 1992-1993 | Study of Physics at the University of Miami, USA |
| 1989-1992 | Study of Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
Awards / Fellowships
| 2018 | Award "Best Study Course" in the graduate program "Biomedical Technologies", Universität Tübingen |
| 2017 | Award "Best Lecture Series in Pre-Clinical Studies (3rd place)", Universität Tübingen |
| 2011 | Offer of a W3 Professorship of Physics and Medical Engineering, University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 2008 | Offer of a W3 Professorship of Bionanomechanics, University of Ulm, Germany |
| 2008 | "Award for good teaching 2008" from the Physics Department, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
| 2007 | Stipend from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences for a research stay at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, U.K. |
| 2007 | Member of the Young Academy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences |
| 2007 | Offer of a W2 Professorship of Applied Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
| 2002-2007 | Research Fellowship „Nanoanalytical Methods in Brain Research“ of the Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung / Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft |
| 2002 | Offer of a Junior Professorship of Physics (W1, tenure track), University of Oldenburg, Germany |
| 1998 | Offer of an Assistant Professorship of Physics (tenure track), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA |
